MATTHEW OP WE8TMT58TEE. A.D . 1216. thought it very becoming to dedicate a chapel, near the north door of hie church, to the honour of Saint Edmund. Moreover, soon after his own creation, he very properly appointed, in the room of his former prior, Master Maurice, the precentor, a man of good character, to the honourable office of prior, the former prior having been a holy and most religious man, who, on account of the eminence of his holy life, deservedly received honourable burial in the chapel of the guests, which the lord the king had built. But when the lord the king had received certain information of the truth of the glorious canonization before mentioned, and when he had both seen the authentic edict sealed with the bull, and had it read to him by Master John, a monk of Pontigny, but an Englishman by birth, feeling great joy, he ordered that all the clergy of his chapel, having lighted many tapers, and having put on their garments of festival, should solemnly celebrate the mass of which the first words are, " Let us rejoice," &c. About the same time, the canons of Salisbury, with the object of guarding against danger to their church, and of pleasing the lord the king, elected as bishop and shepherd of their souls fhe lord William of York, provost of Bererlac, one of the secular clergy, a friend of the king, and a man of great experience in the laws of the land ; who was confirmed on his appointment without any delay or any opposition or hindrance on the part of any one. Also, at the same time, the lord Sylvester, who some time before had not consented, thinking perhaps that he was unworthy of and unequal to the office to which he was elected, namely, the bishopric of Carlisle, did consent with all humility and fear of God, being so much the more worthy, because he accounted himself unworthy. He, too, was a faithful clerk of the lord the king, and dear to and intimate with him, having the first post in his chancery, and performing the duties of his office with fidelity. When the course of this year was proceeding onwards to its end, besides those others, the memory of whose deaths is touched upon in this volume, some illustrious nobles .of Eng land died, namely, Richard de Argenton, a most gallant knight, who had been long serving God as his faithful sol dier in the Holy Land ; and in the north country, Henry de Balliol, a knight, and in Holland, Lambert de Muletin, a knight ; also Ranulph Brito, a canon of the church of Saint Paul, in London, at one time a great friend of the lord the king,